Images And Words - Dream Theater Reviews

1. Pull Me Under - Recently appeard on Guitar Hero world tour and underrated it badly. Awesome song 2. Another Day - Predominantly piano/keyboard based song. As you expected has a Petrucci solo. 3. Take The Time - Rather like 2. but has some awesome funky bass groove in the background on verses, more off beat than usual 4. ...  Read the complete review

A true masterpiece of progressive rock in every sense, Images And Words was light years head of its time and like all desert island releases, still remains one of the very best progressive albums to this day. With a set list littered with classic tracks, innovative sounds and fantastic playing, Dream Theater forged its legacy with ...  Read the complete review

"Dream Theater" and "mainstream" are not two words you would ever expect to find in the same sentence. (Except just then of course!) "Images and Words" is, in my opinion, the band's second finest words (after "Scenes from a Memory". It does a little dated, it does sound a little prentious in ...  Read the complete review

That's very simple and clear possibly the greatest record of progressive metal and the record which brought progressive music in the 90's back from the dead... The Berklee collage graduates succeeded in making a record that combines heavy, double bass - heavy metal riffing, fusion rythyms, technical extremities , eloquent piano parts and soulful ...  Read the complete review

The sophisticated and enchanting music of New York’s Dream Theater hangs on the precipice of my patience when it comes to music meeting art: the band’s self-styled progressive metal sound has been in constant evolution since this 1992 debut, but for all the bombastic overblown intricacies and contrasting simplicity of some of their later albums, ...  Read the complete review

Both critics and fans struggle to precisely define Dream Theater’s style because, like all great music, it represents bits taken from lots of different genres arranged into something that doesn’t particularly resemble anything that’s been done before (or since). Recurrently, this stuff is classified as ...  Read the complete review

Although this band has been together for years it was this 1992 album ‘Images and Words’ that was the initial eye-opener for me. The album itself contains some excellent compositions that really boost the thought provoking lyrics sung by first rate vocalist James Labrie. There really isn’t a bad song on this album. ...  Read the complete review